David Kaufer Bio

Kaufer has been at Carnegie Mellon since 1980 and has been head of the English Department since 1994. Under Kaufer's leadership, the English Department has lured several strong junior and senior faculty members to the university. Kaufer is co-director of the master's program in communication planning and information design, an interdisciplinary program between the Department of English and the School of Design in the university's College of Fine Arts. This is the only program in the world in which writers and designers train together. Kaufer's primary research area is rhetorical theory, the relationship of language to audience effects, a study to which he has devoted three of the five books on which he has been the lead author. Kaufer previously taught at the State University of New York in Albany. He holds a Ph.D. in rhetorical theory from the University of Wisconsin.

	*David Kaufer, Professor of English and Rhetoric and Head, Department of English*
	Kaufer has been at Carnegie Mellon since 1980 and has been head of the English Department since 1994. Under Kaufer's leadership, the English Department has lured several strong junior and senior faculty members to the university. Kaufer is co-director of the master's program in communication planning and information design, an interdisciplinary program between the Department of English and the School of Design in the university's College of Fine Arts. This is the only program in the world in which writers and designers train together. Kaufer's primary research area is rhetorical theory, the relationship of language to audience effects, a study to which he has devoted three of the five books on which he has been the lead author. Kaufer previously taught at the State University of New York in Albany. He holds a Ph.D. in rhetorical theory from the University of Wisconsin.